Improvement in corn-planners



J. M. FOY.

' Corn-Planter.

Patented Apr. 16, 1861 ot' the framing.

UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. FOY, OF FOUNTAIN GREEN, ILLINOIS.

. IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANIERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. FoY, of Foun tain Green, in the county of Hancock and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Corn-Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to, the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which--- Figure 1 is a side elevation with the nigh wheel removed. Fig.2 is a plan.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in .both figures.

The nature of this invention consists in a combination of devices by means of which the seeding apparatus 'isat all times under the complete control of the driver, and can be made to drop at regular intervals or otherwise, as desired, in the manner hereinafter more fully eirplained. I

Arepresents the framing of the machine, supported at its rear end upon ashaft, B,which is journaled in boxes'attaehed to the under side 0 G are traction-wheels journaled loosely on and near the outer ends of the shaft B. At-

tached to the outer side of the wheels,.near

their axis, is aspring-point, (not shown in the drawings,) which, as the machine is drawn forward, engages in ratchet-teeth in a disk rigidly secured upon the extreme outer ends of the shaft B, and when pushed backward slips over the ratchet-teeth, and thereby allows the wheels in their retrograde movement to revolve independently of the shaft and seeddropping mechanism.

D D are seed-hoppers secured upon the forward part of the machine to the framing im- 'mediately in front of traction-wheels.

EE are furrow' plows,fhinged to'the under side of the hopp'ers in frontof and midway between two inwardly-flaring covers, F F, also hiuged to the under side of the seed-hoppers.

G' is a seed tube. or conveyor attached to the back part of the furrow-plom-an'd communi-g cates with the hopper. a p Y His a transverse shaft journaled in boxes It,

attached to the front side of the'hopp'erj, so as to be capable-of vibratory movcrfient.

' I is a lever attached to-the said shaft for the purpose of adj usting the furromphmgand coverers.

J Jere rods attached to the shaftHQeZnd-pro;

jecting downwardly and terminating in eyes, which'are connected to the furrow-plow and coverers by connecting-rods K K.

L L are shafts passing vertically through the seed-hoppers; Journaled on the lower end of the said shafts, in each of the hoppers, is a perforated dlSlhVfilVB, which is provided with a radial arm and cqnnecte'd'thereby to the ends of the sliding 'e'rossniece. (Shown in dotted lines.)

M is a pallet-lever secured upon and near 'one end of an arbor, b, pivoted at each end in brackets NN, attached to and supported upon one of the transverse pieces of the framing. The lower end of .the pallet-lever is connected -to the sliding bar by a rod, 0. e

c is-a spiral] spring wound around and at tached to the arbor at one end and to the bracket N! at theother.

Q is a wheel fitted loosely on the shaft B, so

as to be capable of lateral and rotary movement. thereon independently of the shaft.

1% is a disk fitted on' the shaftso as to have lateral movementonly independent of the shaft The inner side of the said disk is pro- .vidcd with ratchetiteeth, which engage i a cor responding teeth in the side of the hub of the 'wheel, with which it comes in contact, thereby imparting a rotory motion to the droppingwheel. I

()n the periphery of the wheel Q, and equidistant a'part, are two or more projections, s, which, when the machineis in operation, im-' pinge againsttheshort arm of the pallet-lever, arid by means of its connection with the sliding bar and the recoil of the spiral spring 0 imparts an intermittent vibratory motion ,to theseed-valves. "On the face of the hub of the wheelarealso ratchet-teeth f,iri .which'a sickleshaped ratchet bar, B,-'ea'gages to give a notary motion to the wheel independently ofthe motion of the machine; s I T is a seat mounted upon braces U, snpported upon thttfraining 'of the machine.

.V is .a lever, to which the sickle-ratchet P is attached. Pivotedtoone side of the seat W is .also'a lever, havingits fulcrum in an arm attached to andprojecting'fromone side of the seat. The

lower end of the lever W is, forked, and fits over theshat'tandin contact with the disk It, for the purpose of moviug'jt and thewheel latorally ion the sli'aft ,;l3, so. as. to allow the wheel toa levolve without coming in contact-with the driver 'vvithout' movingfrom-his'seat; When pallet-levee? A'sfiiral spring, (I, fixed at one lt'is desired to transport the. machine, the.

end to; .the sha'ft side-of the wheel opposite of the forked lever, 'by'the forked lever,'thereby permitting it .to

, serves to return the wheel to its working p0; revolve withonteo'ntact'with the ipallet lever.

sitjion on the shaft when the lever is released. means of the sicklerratchet-bar the dropand pressing against the dropping wheelismoved laterally on the shaft X is the draftpole. ping-wheel isnnder the perfect control. of the This machine is designed to plant two rows driver. During any backward movement of at once. the machine the traction-wheels, hymeans of The operation of my machine ;is as follows: their ratchet-connections,areadapted, to rotate As the machine is drawnoverth'e ground mo- Without any movement of the shaft. tion is imparted from the traction-wheels to VVhatI claim s my invention, anddesire to the dropping-wheel through the medium of secure by Letter% Patent, is-'- o shaft and ratchet-disk scoured thereon. At 1. The combination and arrangement of the every revolution of. the dropping-wheel the sickleshaped bar I, lever V,ratehet-teeth f,

' seed-valves arecaused to move twice by means and dr0pping-wheel Q, as and for the purposes of the projectionson the dropping-Wheel strikset forth. v

ing against theshort arm of the pallet-lever The arrangement of the dropping-wheel and pressing it down until the distance he- Q, ratchetdisk It, spiral spring 11, shaft 13, and tween it and the wheel is sufficient to allow forked lever W, in combination with the pal the projection to pass, from whence it is relet-lever M,in the mnnnerand lhrthepurposes turned to its normal position by the recoil of set forth. its spiral spring. At each movement of the valves the requisite quantity of seed isbroug'ht over the seed-tube, and thereby conveyed to Witnesses:

the furrow formed bythe plow. The plow and DANIEL WHITE, covcrers are adjusted simultaneously by the I JAMES CAMPBELL.

JAM ns m. not. 

